I haven't checked any book stores recently. Maybe Fry's noticed a drop in popularity of Perl books. Someone should email them to ask.

If you really want to see a drop, wait until it's closer to Perl 6 time, when stores won't know whether to stock the old Perl 5 books or wait for the Perl 6 books, and newbie programmers won't know which to learn.

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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